PHYLOGENY OF
CAMPANULACEAE S. STR.
INFERRED FROM ITS
SEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR
RIBOSOMAL DNA 1
W. M. M. Eddie, 2,5 T. Shulkina, 3
J. Gaskin, 3,4 R. C. Haberle, 2 and
R. K. Jansen 2
ABSTRACT
Ninety-three taxa comprising thirty-two genera (plus four outgroups from Lobeliaceae) were used to estimate a phylogeny
of the Campanulaceae based on ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. From 2629 most parsimonious trees, a strict
consensus tree with bootstrap values was constructed, in addition to a phylogram showing branch lengths. The topologies of
these two trees are discussed in relation to the pollen and capsule morphology within the family, in addition to chromosome
number and geographical distribution. The results show that there is a major dichotomy between the colpate/colporate pollen
alliance (platycodonoid taxa) and the porate pollen alliance (wahlenbergioid and campanuloid taxa). Both these major alliances
are monophyletic. Within the porate alliance there are two major clades, the wahlenbergioids and the campanuloids. The
campanuloid clade is further subdivided into two major clades representing the Rapunculus and the Campanula s. str. groups
of taxa, plus three smaller clades that are considered as ‘‘transitional’’ taxa. It is argued that the family originated in a
fragmenting West Gondwanaland and that tectonic processes are responsible for the major dichotomy in the family. The
colpate/colporate platycodonoids subsequently remained relatively relictual in Asia, whereas the porate taxa spread over much
of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The campanuloid lineage spread over the Northern Hemisphere from a major
evolutionary center in the Mediterranean region and is represented in North America only by the Rapunculus group. The
wahlenbergioid lineage is widely dispersed across the southern continents and oceanic islands but has a major secondary
center of diversification in southern Africa. The use of ITS provides insights for future investigations and a phylogenetic
framework that can be tested with other data sets. Its limitations for phylogeny reconstruction are briefly discussed. More
extensive taxon sampling and additional data sets are required to refine these results and for a new classification of the
Campanulaceae to be proposed.
Key words: Campanulaceae, evolution, Gondwanaland, ITS, nuclear-ribosomal DNA, phylogeny.
Classification systems of the bellflower family
(Campanulaceae s. str.) have traditionally followed
the arrangements of Boissier (1875, 1888) and
Schönland (1889–1894) and, together with the refinements of Charadze (1949, 1970, 1976), Fedorov
(1957), and others, can ultimately be traced back
to the arrangement of De Candolle (1830) who di-
vided the family into two subtribes, the Campanuleae and the Wahlenbergeae, based on the mode of
capsule dehiscence (Table 1). Schönland divided
the family into three subtribes, separating Platycodon A. DC., Musschia Dum., and Microcodon A.
DC. in his subtribe Platycodinae on the basis of
calyx lobe position in relation to the locules of the
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W.M.M.E. thanks Tina Ayers and Randy Scott for their hospitality in Flagstaff and for facilities at Northern Arizona
University in 1998. Others who deserve special mention include Ian Oliver, Andrew Hudson, Ian Hedge, Martin
Ingrouille, Susana Neves, Mark Chase, Mike Fay, Peter Lewis, Marcia Ricci, Jim and Jenny Archibald, and Per Hartvig.
For technical support we thank Kavita Vyas and Christine Green. The Regius Keepers of the Royal Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh, and the Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are thanked for use of facilities. Assistance by the
staff of the Goulandris Natural History Museum (Athens), the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and the Darwin Library
(University of Edinburgh) is gratefully acknowledged. For funding, W.M.M.E. acknowledges The University of London
(The Central Research Fund; The Keddy Fletcher-Warr Studentship of Birkbeck College), The University of Edinburgh
(The Molecular Biology Fund of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology; The James Rennie Bequest), and The
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (The Edinburgh Botanic Garden (Sibbald) Trust). R.C.H. acknowledges assistance
with collections from and discussions with Nancy Morin (The Arboretum at Flagstaff) and Barbara Ertter (Jepson
Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley). We also thank Tom Givnish and Tom Lammers for helpful suggestions
on an earlier version of the manuscript. This research was supported by NSF grant DEB 9982092 to R.K.J.
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Section of Integrative Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Plant Resources Center, University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A. jansen@mail.utexas.edu.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A.
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Present address: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, 1500 North Central Avenue, Sidney, Montana 59270, U.S.A.
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Present address: Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh, 11 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Scotland,
U.K. weddie1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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Classification of Campanulaceae (A. P. de Candolle, 1830).
Subtribe I (Wahlenbergeae)
Subtribe II (Campanuleae)
Capsule with apical (valvate) dehiscence
Campanumoea Blume (baccate capsule)
Canarina L. (baccate capsule)
Cephalostigma A. DC.
Codonopsis Wall.
Jasione L.
Lightfootia L’Her.
Microcodon A. DC
Platycodon A. DC.
Prismatocarpus L’Her.
Roella L.
Wahlenbergia W. Roth
Capsule with lateral (porate) dehiscence
Adenophora Fisch.
Campanula L.
Merciera A. DC. (indehiscent)
Michauxia L’Her.
Musschia Dum.
Petromarula Vent. ex Hedw. f.
Phyteuma L.
Specularia A. DC.
Symphyandra A. DC.
Trachelium L.
ovary (Table 2). Such natural classifications were
essentially based on morphology of the calyx (e.g.,
the presence or absence of appendages between the
lobes) or of the mode of capsule dehiscence (e.g.,
whether it is apical and valvate or lateral and porate). Many authors (e.g., Hutchinson, 1969; Carolin, 1978; Cronquist, 1988; Takhtajan, 1969) considered Cyananthus A. DC. to be the most primitive
genus within the family based on its superior ovary.
These various classifications were generally useful in floristic works, especially during the 20th
century when much of the research on the Campanulaceae was of a regional, floristic nature. Frequently, various authors have used their own modified system with many nomenclatural changes, and
great confusion has resulted. Considerable conflict
still exists as to the number of genera recognized.
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Generic distinctions in the family are often subtle,
being based on a suite of characters best observed
in living plants. In addition, species of the Campanulaceae appear to be prone to considerable phenotypic plasticity (Eddie, 1997; Eddie & Ingrouille,
1999) as well as ontogenetic variation, and this has
led to a burgeoning of the literature with superfluous species names. The few generic monographs
that have been completed, although excellent, often
lacked a global perspective, and have contributed
little to the establishment of a new, more generally
accepted classification of the family. Reconstruction of the phylogeny of the Campanulaceae has
been hindered by a lack of consensus as to what
constitutes a genus and the failure to apply important character combinations (e.g., cytological and
palynological characters), which could potentially
Classification of the Campanulaceae (Schönland, 1889–1894).
Tribe Campanuleae
Subtribe Campanulinae
Subtribe Wahlenberginae
Subtribe Platycodinae
Adenophora Fisch.
Campanula L.
sect. Medium Tourn.
sect. Rapunculus Boiss.
Canarina L.
Heterocodon Nuttall
Michauxia L’Her.
Ostrowskia Regel
Peracarpa J.D. Hooker & T. Thoms.
Phyteuma L.
sect. Cylindrocarpa Rgl.
sect. Hedranthum G. Don
sect. Petromarula A. DC.
sect. Podanthum G. Don
sect. Synotoma G. Don
Symphyandra A. DC.
Trachelium L.
Campanumoea Blume
Cephalostigma A. DC.
Codonopsis Wall.
Cyananthus Wall.
Githopsis Nuttall
Hedraeanthus Grisebach
Heterochaenia A. DC.
Jasione L.
Leptocodon (J. D. Hooker) Lem.
Lightfootia L’Her.
Merciera A. DC.
Prismatocarpus L’Her.
Rhigiophyllum Hochst.
Roella L.
Siphocodon
Treichelia
Wahlenbergia W. Roth
Microdon A. DC.
sect. Eumicrocodon A. DC.
sect. Caelotheca A. DC.
Musschia Dum.
Platycodon A. DC.
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highlight major discontinuities at the generic, tribal, and subtribal levels. Many species have been
placed, for convenience, in Campanula L., Asyneuma Grisebach & Schenk, and Wahlenbergia Schrad.
ex W. Roth, and this has further complicated our
understanding of phylogenetic relationships. Indeed, some of the intrageneric taxa in these large
genera are probably more deserving of generic status than some of the currently recognized segregate
genera. The so-called satellite genera of Campanula do not appear to be any closer to each other
than they do to Campanula, and there is no evidence to suggest that Campanula, despite its numerical superiority, is ancestral to them. It is thus
often easier to define what Campanula is not rather
than what its actual boundaries are. Thus, to some
extent, the genus Campanula is conceptually useless and its continued use as a ‘‘core’’ genus may
be misleading. The same is probably true for Asyneuma and Wahlenbergia.
Knowledge of inter- and intrageneric relationships within the family has steadily increased during the latter half of the 20th century. Cytological
studies, beginning with the seminal investigations
of Gadella (1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967), Contandriopoulos (1964, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972,
1976, 1980a, b, 1984), Contandriopoulos et al.
(1972, 1974, 1984), Damboldt (1965a, b, 1966,
1968, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1978a, b), Phitos
(1963a, b, 1964a, b, 1965), and Podlech and Damboldt (1964) have vastly increased our knowledge
of intrageneric relationships, particularly of the genus Campanula. The most common chromosome
number in the Campanulaceae is n 5 17, and this
appears to have evolved independently several
times in relatively unrelated genera (e.g., in Campanula, Nesocodon M. Thulin, Ostrowskia Regel,
and Canarina L.). Forty-two percent of the published chromosome counts of the family Campanulaceae s.l. have this number (Lammers, 1992).
The base number in the family has been suggested
to be x 5 8 (Böcher, 1964; Contandriopoulos,
1984), but Raven (1975) suggested that x 5 7 is
the ancestral number. An ancestral base number of
x 5 7 is supported by counts for Cyananthus (Kumar & Chauhan, 1975; Hong & Ma, 1991).
It was Avetisian (1948, 1967, 1973, 1986) who
first drew attention to the different pollen morphologies within the family and gave a schematic presentation of pollen evolution based on aperture
types. She further pointed out that pollen with colpate and colporate apertures are typical of those
taxa found in the tropics, whereas those with porate
apertures are typical of taxa from temperate regions. Dunbar (1973a, b, c, 1975a, b, 1981, 1984)
and Dunbar and Wallentinus (1976) extended Avetisian’s work by providing excellent surveys of pollen from numerous genera of the Campanulaceae,
and this has been augmented by Morin (1987),
Nowicke et al. (1992), and Morris and Lammers
(1997). Several of these studies suggest that some
of the genera are artificially grouped together in De
Candolle’s and in Schönland’s arrangements because of the limited criteria used as the basis for
their classification systems.
Seed morphology has been examined for a number of taxa, principally those of North America
(Shetler & Morin, 1982, 1986) and Eurasia (Belyaev, 1984a, b, 1985, 1986; Oganesian, 1985).
Life-form in the Campanulaceae has been studied
intensively by Shulkina (1974, 1975a, b, 1977,
1978, 1979, 1980a, b, c, 1986a, b, 1988) and
Shulkina and Zykov (1980), but these data have not
been incorporated into a cladistic analysis. Serological studies have been done on the tribe Phyteumatae (Gudkova & Borshchenko, 1991), while
Gorovoi et al. (1971) conducted a limited chemotaxonomic survey of Russian Far-Eastern taxa. Kolakovsky (1980, 1982, 1986a, 1986b, 1987), Kolakovsky and Serdyukova (1980), and Lakoba
(1986) did some pioneering carpological investigations of the family, but so far this work has not
been corroborated and it remains to be seen whether their segregate genera will be accepted.
Few molecular phylogenetic studies of the Campanulaceae have been undertaken. Cosner (1993)
and Cosner et al. (2004) used chloroplast DNA
(cpDNA) structural rearrangements to establish a
phylogeny of the family based on 18 genera, while
Cosner et al. (1994) determined rbcL sequences for
several genera as part of a study of interfamilial
relationships of the Campanulales. Eddie (1997,
and unpublished data), using cladistic and phenetic
methodologies, investigated the morphology of most
of the genera of the Campanulaceae, in addition to
molecular variation of 23 to 29 taxa using internal
transcribed spacers (ITS) and matK/trnK-intron sequence data from nuclear ribosomal (nrDNA) and
cpDNA, respectively. For molecular variation within and between genera, ITS sequences have been
used by Ge et al. (1997) for Adenophora Fisch. and
by Kim et al. (1999) for Hanabusaya Nakai. Haberle (1998) examined relationships among the
families Campanulaceae, Cyphiaceae, Nemacladaceae, Cyphocarpaceae, and Lobeliaceae using ITS
sequence data.
This study is an attempt to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Campanulaceae s. str. using nrDNA
ITS sequences and to compare the results with certain characters that have traditionally been used in
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the classification of the Campanulaceae (i.e., capsule morphology and presence/absence of calyx appendages in addition to chromosome numbers, pollen, and geographical distribution). It is the first
time that molecular methods have been applied to
a broad sample of taxa (93 species in 32 genera)
within the family. This study is also the first part
of more extensive investigations of the Campanulaceae using a variety of molecular markers, including the sequences of chloroplast genes matK
and rbcL, as well as chloroplast genome rearrangements and morphological data. Ultimately these
studies should lead to a new comprehensive classification of the Campanulaceae.
modifications such as the addition of PVP-40 and/
or BSA. Double-stranded DNA from the ITS and
the intervening 5.8S subunit of the 18S–26S nr
DNA was amplified using standard PCR procedures
(Kim & Jansen, 1994). The basic primer sequences
were those of White et al. (1990) or the modifications by Yokota et al. (1989). Purification of the
PCR products was by means of Qiagen QIAquick
spin columns (Qiagen Corp.), and sequences were
obtained from ABI Prism 377 Automatic DNA Sequencers (Perkin Elmer, Applied Biosystems Division). For each taxon, forward and reverse sequences were obtained, and the results were saved
as electropherograms and edited using the programs SEQUENCHER, vers. 3.0 and 4.1.2 (Gene
Codes Corp.), EDITVIEW, ver. 1.0.1, and SEQUENCE NAVIGATOR, ver. 1.0.1 (Perkin Elmer,
Applied Biosystems Division).
MATERIALS
AND
METHODS
TAXA SAMPLED AND SOURCES OF PLANT MATERIAL
ITS sequences for 93 taxa of the Campanulaceae
were used, including a number of which were previously published and available from Genbank (Fu
et al., 1999; Ge et al., 1997; Kim et al., 1999;
Schultheis, 2001; K. Dotti, unpublished data) (see
Appendix 1). Many of the samples represent taxa
that are commonly accepted as genera or sections
within genera because of their obvious morphological discontinuities and that provide a broad sample
of the family. The nomenclature used in this study
is based on the classification system used by Fedorov (1957), but the names given to the major
groups or clades are merely for convenience and
not based on any particular classification system.
Added to the data set were four outgroups from the
Lobeliaceae (Downingia bacigalupii Weiler, Lobelia
aberdarica R. E. Fries & T. C. E. Fries, L. tenera
Kunth, and L. tupa L.), bringing the total number
of taxa in the data set to 97. There is overwhelming
evidence from both morphological (Lammers, 1992;
Gustafsson & Bremer, 1995) and molecular (Cosner
et al., 1994; Gustafsson et al., 1996; Jansen & Kim,
1996; Albach et al., 2001) studies that the Lobeliaceae are an appropriate outgroup for the Campanulaceae sensu stricto. DNA samples were obtained from living plants cultivated at The Institute
of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICMB), University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., The Royal Botanic
Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), Scotland, U.K., The
University of Texas at Austin (UT), U.S.A., and the
Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), St. Louis, U.S.A.
For sources of material and location of vouchers,
see Appendix 1.
DNA ISOLATION, AMPLIFICATION, AND SEQUENCING
Genomic DNA was extracted following the CTAB
protocol of Doyle and Doyle (1987) or with minor
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SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT
The boundaries for the ITS region were determined by comparisons with published ITS sequences of Nicotiana rustica L. (Solanaceae, Venkateswarlu & Nazar, 1991), Krigia Schreb. (Asteraceae,
Kim & Jansen, 1994), Madiinae Benth. (Asteraceae, Baldwin, 1992), and Gentiana L. (Gentianaceae, Yuan et al., 1996). Alignment of ITS proved
to be problematic, particularly at the 39 end of the
ITS2 region close to the 26S subunit. Due to a high
level of ambiguity, this region was deleted at 205
bases downstream from the start of the ITS2 region.
The highly conserved 5.8 subunit was not available
for all taxa and therefore was not included in phylogenetic analyses. The multiple alignment used in
this study was created by CLUSTALX (ver. 1.64b;
Thompson et al., 1997) in several stages using the
Slow/Accurate dynamic programming option. Divergent sequences (. 40%) were delayed in the
alignment procedure. Insertions from individual
taxa, which created gaps and had no apparent homology with the rest of the taxa, were removed, and
another round of alignment was initiated. A range
of gap penalties from 5.00 to 20.00 and gap extension penalties from 3.00 to 8.00 were initially tried
with various combinations until a consistent alignment was established using a gap penalty of 8.00
and a gap extension penalty of 5.00. Minor final
adjustments to the alignment were done manually.
The alignment is available at: ,http://www.biosci.
utexas.edu/IB/faculty/jansen/lab/personnel/eddie.
htm.. All new sequences have been submitted to
Genbank.
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Table 3. Base composition and nucleotide divergence in the aligned partial sequences of ITS1 and ITS2 regions
of nr DNA in the Campanulaceae.
Sequence parameter
Aligned length
Constant sites
Variable sites
Informative sites
G 1 C content (%)
Unambig. transitions
Unambig. transversions
Ts/Tv ratio
Avg. base frequencies*
ITS1 1 partial ITS2
A 5 20.8
497
81
416 (75 uninformative)
345
59.8
627
500
1.254
C 5 30.6
G 5 29.2
T 5 19.3
* Missing data and gaps excluded.
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES
A search for the most parsimonious tree was initiated using the PARSIMONY option of PAUP
4.068 (Swofford, 2001) with ACCTRAN, MULTREES, TBR, and COLLAPSE ZERO LENGTH
BRANCHES options. All characters were given
equal weight and were unordered. Gaps were treated as missing data. The HEURISTIC search algorithm was chosen, with 1000 random addition replicates and with a limit of 2000 trees saved per
replicate. The amount of support for monophyletic
groups was evaluated by 1000 bootstrap replicates
and a 50% cut-off value for the bootstrap consensus
tree (Felsenstein, 1985). Consistency Indices (CI)
(Kluge & Farris, 1969) were also computed. The
Retention Index (RI) and the g1 statistic (Hillis &
Huelsenbeck, 1992) were also computed, the latter
after computing the tree-length distribution of
100,000 random parsimony trees by means of the
RANDOM TREES command.
RESULTS
AND
DISCUSSION
The total aligned length of the ITS1 and partial
ITS2 (including gaps) was 497 bp. There were 81
constant characters, 71 variable characters that
were parsimoniously uninformative, and 345 parsimoniously informative characters (Table 3). Parsimony analyses generated 2629 trees with 2130
steps, a CI of 0.3703 (excluding uninformative
characters), and RI of 0.7583 (Figs. 1, 2). The g1
statistic for 100,000 trees randomly sampled was
20.327694 indicating that the ITS data set is significantly skewed from random and contains considerable phylogenetic information (Hillis & Huelsenbeck, 1992). For other statistics of the aligned
sequences see Table 3. Multiple ITS types were not
detected, and in one case there were two separate
samples of the same species (Adenophora divaricata
Franch. & Sav.) that did not come out together. The
branch lengths are very short for the Adenophora
clade overall, which indicates that most of the species have very similar ITS sequences. The differences between the two samples of A. divaricata suggest either misidentification of the original sample
or population differences in the ITS sequences.
The taxonomic categories used in classifications
are unequivocal and the amount of molecular divergence (and hence phylogenetic signal) within
and between taxa at each level in the taxonomic
hierarchy varies. For a family such as the Campanulaceae, which has numerous monophyletic genera
and sections, the use of ITS sequences is justified
by the phylogenetic signal obtained, but there may
be substantial trade-off due to problems with alignments. The difficulties associated with sampling
across a wide spectrum of taxa in the Campanulaceae should lessen as we are able to refine our
molecular analyses at different levels in the taxonomic hierarchy, in conjunction with other sources
of data. Due to high ambiguity at the generic level
in the Campanulaceae, ITS sequence data may be
approaching the limits of usefulness for phylogenetic reconstruction, whereas at the species level,
there may not be enough signal, and many species
may be spuriously placed with each other. For extensive discussion of the utility and limitations of
the ITS region in the reconstruction of angiosperm
phylogeny, see Baldwin et al. (1995), Coleman
(2003), and Goertzen et al. (2003).
MAJOR CLADES IN THE ITS TREE
The topology of the strict consensus tree (Fig. 1)
shows that there are two major clades of the Campanulaceae. This major dichotomy in the family is
supported by pollen data. For convenience, these
two major clades are referred to as alliances and
are named on the basis of their pollen types. The
taxa in the smaller of these two alliances comprise
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Figure 1. Strict consensus of 2629 most parsimonious trees with 2130 steps for 93 taxa of the Campanulaceae and
4 outgroups of the Lobeliaceae based on parsimony analysis of the combined ITS1 and ITS2 sequence data. The
numbers above the nodes are bootstrap percentages of 1000 replicates. [CI 5 0.3703 (excluding uninformative characters), RI 5 0.7583.] Nodes without bootstrap values had less than 50% support.
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Figure 2. Phylogram of one of the 2629 equally parsimonious trees for 93 taxa of the Campanulaceae and 4
outgroups of the Lobeliaceae based on parsimony analysis of the combined ITS1 and partial ITS2 sequence data. A
scale bar representing 10 changes is shown on bottom left corner.
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genera such as Codonopsis, Platycodon, Canarina,
etc., which are all distinguished by their possession
of either colpate or colporate pollen (Avetisian,
1948, 1967, 1973, 1986; Dunbar, 1973a, b, c,
1975a, b, 1981, 1984) and are also referred to as
the platycodonoid group in this paper. The colpate/
colporate alliance is strongly supported with a
100% bootstrap value and is the only clade with
taxa that have baccate fruits (Canarina, Campanumoea Blume, and Cyclocodon W. Griff.), although
the majority have dry capsules. Geographically, the
colpate/colporate alliance is mostly distributed in
the tropics or subtropics, from Southeast Asia and
the western Himalayas to Ussuriland, Korea, and
Japan, and from Indonesia and the Philippines to
New Guinea. The genus Canarina is unique within
this alliance in being essentially African, but it is
disjunct, with one species in Macaronesia and two
species in the mountains of East Africa. The taxa
in the larger alliance comprise the remainder of the
Campanulaceae, and they are distinguished by
their porate pollen. The porate alliance has only
weak support with a 55% bootstrap value. It is far
larger numerically than the colpate/colporate alliance and is divided into two major groups, the wahlenbergioids and the campanuloids. This huge alliance is distributed mostly in the temperate
regions of the world, although a few wahlenbergioid
and campanuloid taxa extend to the tropics. All
taxa within these two groups have capsules that are
predominantly dry and dehiscent. In the discussion
that follows, we describe the major groups in the
two alliances and how they compare with data from
morphology, chromosome number, and geography.
tains of southern Asia. Because of its superior ovary
and low chromosome number of 2n 5 14, it has
traditionally been considered the most ancestral genus of the Campanulaceae (Hutchinson, 1969;
Cronquist, 1988; Takhtajan, 1969). However, it also
has specialized ecological characters such as deep
taproots and prostrate lateral branching, both of
which are characteristic of alpine plants. The isolated position of Canarina is supported by both geography and chromosome number. Canarina canariensis (L.) Vatke has 2n 5 34, while the
remainder of the platycodonoids have 2n 5 16 or
18. Bootstrap support for the clade comprising Leptocodon, the remainder of Codonopsis, plus Campanumoea javanica and Platycodon is moderate
(74%). Support for the minor clade containing the
bulk of Codonopsis plus Platycodon and C. javanica
is strong (88%), but the clade with only the latter
two genera is moderately supported (70%). The
taxa of Codonopsis are morphologically less divergent from each other, whereas C. javanica and Platycodon are considerably divergent. Hong and Pan
(1998), on the basis of pollen morphology, seed
coat, and gross morphology, restored the genus Cyclocodon, which was formerly included in Campanumoea s.l. as C. celebica Blume and C. lancifolia
(Roxb.) Merr. They considered Cyclocodon to be
more closely related to Platycodon than to Campanumoea s. str. (i.e., C. javanica Blume and C.
inflata (Hook. f.) C. B. Clarke). Campanumoea and
Cyclocodon have baccate fruits but would appear to
be rather distant from Canarina.
THE PORATE ALLIANCE (THE WAHLENBERGIOID AND
CAMPANULOID GROUPS)
THE COLPATE/COLPORATE ALLIANCE (THE
PLATYCODONOID GROUP)
There is strong support (100%) for the monophyly of the colpate/colporate alliance, although the
major clades within this alliance are only partially
resolved. Canarina, Cyananthus, and Codonopsis
Wall. subg. Obconicapsula D. Y. Hong form a polytomy with the remainder of taxa, including Codonopsis, Leptocodon (J. D. Hooker) Lem., Platycodon, and Campanumoea javanica Blume.
Codonopsis subg. Obconicapsula is somewhat isolated morphologically and, to a lesser extent, geographically (central Himalayas) from the rest of Codonopsis. It has an ovary that bulges upward above
the level of the calyx lobes and an incomplete nectar dome. These features, together with the overall
appearance of the flower, recall Platycodon. Cyananthus comprises highly adapted perennial and
annual species of very high elevations in the moun-
The monophyly of the porate alliance is weakly
supported (55%) and it comprises two very unequal
clades, the wahlenbergioids and the campanuloids.
This is undoubtedly an artifact of the undersampling of wahlenbergioid taxa.
The wahlenbergioid group. The sister relationship
of the two wahlenbergioid taxa, Craterocapsa Hilliard & B. L. Burtt and Roella L., has strong bootstrap support (94%). These two genera have traditionally been considered closely related (Hilliard &
Burtt, 1973). Both are from southern Africa, although Craterocapsa ranges north to the mountains
of eastern Zimbabwe. Since only three traditionally
accepted wahlenbergioid genera were available for
molecular analysis, the discussion of the results for
this group is relatively straightforward, but caution
should be observed for such a small sample. Wahlenbergia hederacea L. falls within the campanuloid
group and is therefore distant from the other two
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wahlenbergioid genera. This is surprising because
this species has traditionally been considered as
typically wahlenbergioid. It has a chromosome
number of 2n 5 36, which is not particularly unusual, but it is isolated in western Europe, and has
a vegetative morphology that is rather atypical for
the wahlenbergioids. Although all modern European workers have never questioned the wahlenbergioid nature of W. hederacea, this species was
recognized as a separate genus by some early workers (Schultesia Roth, Valvinterlobus Dulac, Aikinia
Salisb. ex A. DC.) and it was assigned to Roucela
by Dumortier (1827). The majority of species of
Wahlenbergia are distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. Some species (e.g., W. trichogyna Stearn)
have 2n 5 36, but the majority have 2n 5 18 (see
also Petterson et al., 1995; Crawford et al., 1994;
Anderson et al., 2000). In the study of Cosner et
al. (2004), the Australian species, W. gloriosa Lothian (not sampled), was found to be in the same
clade as Roella ciliata L.
Damboldt] erinus L., Campanula mollis L., and
Campanula edulis Forssk.), but Azorina vidalii
(Wats.) Feer, with its nodding flowers, is a conspicuous exception. With Trachelium removed, bootstrap support for this clade is 93%. Campanula
(subg. Roucela) erinus (2n 5 28) belongs to a rather
distinct group of annual campanuloids of the Mediterranean, which superficially resemble C. mollis
and C. edulis, but its capsules are discoid and the
calyx appendages are absent. The corolla approaches the hypercrateriform shape of Trachelium corollas to some extent. The flowers of Diosphaera Buser
are quite similar to those of Trachelium and it has
the same chromosome number (2n 5 34), but there
are conspicuous differences between the two genera, both vegetatively and in the form of the inflorescence. The two genera are often united, but they
are disjunct geographically in the Mediterranean.
Calyx appendages are absent in both genera.
Azorina Feer is quite isolated morphologically
(vegetatively and in branching pattern), but its
vague resemblance to Campanula bravensis Bolle
and C. jacobaea C. Smith of the Cape Verde Islands, together with its chromosome number of 2n
5 56, may link it rather tenuously to Campanula
subsect. Oreocodon Fed. (but see also Thulin, 1976:
354). Support for the clade that comprises Azorina,
Feeria, Campanula mollis, and C. edulis is weak
(58%), but when Azorina is removed support for the
remaining taxa is 100%. Feeria angustifolia has
traditionally been associated with Trachelium, but
morphologically it is quite distinct. In some respects, particularly the globular, more compact
shape of the inflorescence, and the valvate apical
dehiscence, it approaches Jasione L., but the chromosome number for Feeria angustifolia is 2n 5 34
(vs. 2n 5 12 for Jasione). The similarity of its ITS
sequences with those of both Campanula mollis and
C. edulis does not accord with its morphology. Campanula mollis and C. edulis are probably closely
related to each other, and this relationship is
strongly supported in the ITS tree (96%). These two
species belong to a group of annual and perennial
campanuloids (2n 5 24, 28, 54, 56), which range
from Macaronesia, North Africa, and the Iberian
Peninsula south to the equator in Tanzania. They
have basal dehiscence and appendages between the
calyx lobes (Maire, 1929; Quézel, 1953; Thulin,
1976). This group probably links up with Campanula subsect. Oreocodon of the western Himalayas
and south-central Asia, which is characterized by
species such as C. incanescens Boiss., C. cashmeriana Royle, and C. colorata Wall.
The remaining taxa in the Campanula s. str.
clade are weakly supported (58%) as a monophy-
The campanuloid group (Campanula s. str., ‘‘transitional’’ taxa, and Rapunculus clades). This
huge group forms an unresolved polytomy consisting of two major clades and three smaller ones. This
basic division is partially in agreement with mode
of capsule dehiscence (there are exceptions such
as Edraianthus in the Campanula s. str. clade and
Adenophora and subsection Heterophylla in the Rapunculus clade) and presence or absence of calyx
appendages, two characters that have traditionally
been used in intrageneric classifications of Campanula (Boissier, 1875, 1888; Fedorov, 1957). One
large, well-supported clade (81%) comprises those
taxa centered around Campanula s. str. (i.e., mostly
those taxa belonging to the sect. Medium DC.), but
also genera such as Trachelium, Diosphaera, Azorina, etc. The second large clade has moderate support (69%) and comprises those taxa centered
around Campanula sect. Rapunculus (Fourr.) Boiss.
(the Rapunculus clade). Two smaller clades have
strong support (100%) and consist of several transitional genera such as Jasione L., Musschia, and
Gadellia Shulkina, while the third small clade comprises Wahlenbergia hederacea alone.
THE CAMPANULA S. STR. CLADE
The Campanula s. str. clade includes a small
number of mostly monotypic genera that are considerably more divergent than the majority of taxa
in this clade. Some have upright flowers (e.g.,
Trachelium caeruleum L., Diosphaera rumeliana
(Hampe) Bornm., Feeria angustifolia (Schousb.)
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letic group. They are mostly Eurasian and North
African, although at least one species in this alliance occurs as far east as the Aleutian Islands (C.
chamissonis Fed. subsect. Scapiflorae (Boiss.) Fed.,
not sampled), and another south to the equator in
northern Tanzania (C. keniensis Thulin, also not
sampled). The isolated species C. mirabilis Albov
(subsect. Spinulosae (Fom.) Fed.) is the sister taxon
to all the others. The small clade formed by Edraianthus pumilio (Schultes) A. DC., E. graminifolius (L.) A. DC., and C. latifolia L. is weakly supported (, 50%). The two species of Edraianthus
(A. DC.) DC. are confined to the mountains of
southeastern Europe, and are rather dissimilar morphologically. Edraianthus pumilio has solitary flowers on multiple inflorescence stems, whereas E.
graminifolius has a glomerulate inflorescence. Morphologically, E. pumilio may be closer to Campanula (Petkovia Stefanoff) orphanidea Boiss. (not sampled), which has a similar mode of capsule
dehiscence (Hartvig, 1991) and similar corollas (C.
orphanidea has 2n 5 26). Edraianthus was formerly considered to be wahlenbergioid because of
the apical rupture of its capsule, but its overall
morphology is very similar to Campanula and its
chromosome number (2n 5 32) is more typical of
campanuloid taxa. Campanula latifolia is rather
isolated in the Campanula s. str. clade. It belongs
to a distinct group of tall mesophytic species from
Eurasia that lack appendages and have nodding
flowers on long spicate inflorescences (e.g., C.
trachelium L., C. bononiensis, C. rapunculoides L.,
etc.). In general morphology this group (subsect.
Eucodon (A. DC.) Fed.) resembles Adenophora.
Several other minor groups within the Campanula s. str. clade have moderate to strong support.
Michauxia tchihatchewii Fisch. & C. A. Meyer and
C. barbata L. have a bootstrap value of 98%. This
relationship is surprising since the morphology of
these two species is very divergent. The monophyly
of the two, yellow-flowered species from the European Alps, C. thyrsoides L. and C. petraea L., is
moderately supported (71%). Collectively, these
four taxa form a strongly supported clade (85%).
The long branches (Fig. 2) show clearly that these
four taxa are all very divergent from each other. In
some cases, relationships in the Campanula s. str.
clade are in accord with classification of Fedorov
(1957), whereas in other instances there is conflict.
For example, C. armazica Kharadze, C. sosnowskii
Kharadze, and C. bellidifolia Adam have a support
value of 74%, which agrees with their placement
in section Scapiflorae (Boiss.) Fed. In contrast, C.
hohenackeri Fisch. & C. A. Mey. (subsect. Triloculares Boiss.) and C. grossheimii Kharadze (sub-
sect. Eucodon) have bootstrap support of 100%, but
their relationship conflicts with Fedorov’s arrangement.
THE
‘‘TRANSITIONAL’’
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The clade comprising Musschia, Gadellia, and
the two species of Campanula sect. Pterophyllum
Damboldt (C. peregrina L. and C. primulifolia L.)
is strongly supported (100%). Musschia aurea Dumort. is an endemic of Madeira together with its
congener, M. wollastoni Lowe, whereas C. peregrina
and C. primulifolia are disjunct between the eastern Mediterranean region and the western Iberian
Peninsula, respectively. Gadellia lactiflora (M.
Bieb.) Shulkina is endemic to the Caucasus region.
Morphologically, Musschia is different from the other three taxa except for a vague similarity of form,
robustness, and disposition of the stigmatic lobes.
Its capsule is 5-loculed, prismatic, and opens with
numerous transverse slits. Its chromosome number
is 2n 5 32. Gadellia was erected by Shulkina
(1979) for Campanula lactiflora M. Bieb. based on
its distinct growth form and chromosome number
(2n 5 36). It has open, upright flowers and dehisces
somewhat medially/apically. Campanula primulifolia was placed in the genus Echinocodon (5 Echinocodonia Kolak.) by Kolakovsky (1986b). Campanula peregrina was acknowledged to be very close
to C. primulifolia by Damboldt (1978b) and was
placed in the section Pterophyllum. Bootstrap support for a close relationship between these two species is 87%. Despite their strong resemblances, the
chromosome number for C. primulifolia is 2n 5 36,
while C. peregrina is recorded as 2n 5 26 (Gadella,
1964). However, Marchal (1920) recorded the former also as 2n 5 26, so these findings require clarification.
The genus Jasione L. is strongly supported as a
monophyletic group (100%). Within the genus, J.
crispa (Pourr.) Samp. is sister to all the others sampled, but the clade formed by them is weakly supported (64%) and relationships among species
within the group are unresolved. The relationship
of Jasione to other taxa of Campanulaceae is unresolved in the ITS tree. Jasione has most frequently been associated with the wahlenbergioid alliance, although it does bear some resemblance to
Feeria Buser with which it shares a similar mode
of capsule dehiscence, but it has a chromosome
number of 2n 5 12 (vs. 2n 5 34 for Feeria).
THE RAPUNCULUS CLADE
The Rapunculus clade has moderate support
(69%) and has a number of smaller clades that are
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all relatively divergent from each other morphologically. In terms of branch length, the taxa within
the Rapunculus clade are much more divergent
overall than the taxa within the Campanula s. str.
clade (Fig. 2). Githopsis Nuttall and Heterocodon
Nuttall are rather divergent in morphology from
each other, particularly that of the capsule (see
McVaugh, 1945), but are probably closely related
and have strong bootstrap support (100%). They are
sister to the remaining members of the Rapunculus
clade. Most of these taxa are either Mediterranean
or North American in distribution. The majority of
taxa within this clade have open, upright flowers
that are rather stellate in form, and the capsule
opens apically or medially by a pore, but there are
conspicuous exceptions (see below). None of the
taxa in the Rapunculus clade has calyx appendages.
The irregular rupture of the capsule apex in Githopsis may represent a derived condition, but this is
not to imply that its ancestral state was lateral (e.g.,
it may be derived from an apical valvate condition
similar to that present in the wahlenbergioid alliance). In Adenophora, Hanabusaya, and Campanula rotundifolia L. (the sole representative of the
harebell group sampled, Campanula subsect. Heterophylla Fed.), the flowers are campanulate and
nodding and the capsule opens basally. The inclusion of these taxa within the Rapunculus clade is
surprising. Morphologically these taxa seem to be
more closely allied to groups within the Campanula
s. str. clade (e.g., C. latifolia and its allies in sect.
Eucodon).
When Githopsis and Heterocodon are removed,
the remaining taxa of the Rapunculus clade have
100% bootstrap support. Within this clade the Texan endemic annual Campanula reverchoni A. Gray
is sister to all the remaining taxa, although support
for this group is weak (, 50%). Within this clade
there are several small groups with moderate to
strong support. The clade comprising Adenophora
and Hanabusaya is strongly supported (99%), although species relationships are largely unresolved.
This confirms the close relationship between Hanabusaya and Adenophora suggested previously by
Eddie (1997) and by Kim et al. (1999), and it tentatively suggests that Hanabusaya is closest to the
two species A. stenanthina (Ledeb.) Kitagawa and
A. paniculata Nannf. (sect. Thyrsanthe (Borb.)
Fed.). Support for the clade uniting these three taxa
is weak (, 50%). The remaining species of Adenophora form an unresolved polytomy, although there
is weak support for a group consisting of A. himalayana Feer (sect. Pachydiscus Fed.) and A. lobophylla D. Y. Hong (sect. Microdiscus Fed.).
The sister group to the Adenophora/Hanabusaya
clade is only weakly supported, but it contains several well-supported smaller groups. These taxa are
divergent morphologically and have a wide range
of chromosome numbers. The group containing the
serpentine endemic from the Balkans, C. hawkinsiana Hausskn. & Heldreich (2n 5 22), and Iberian endemics C. lusitanica Loefl. (2n 5 18), C.
herminii Hoffmanns & Link. (2n 5 32), and C. arvatica Lag. (2n 5 28), is strongly supported (98%),
while the clade with C. stevenii M. Bieb. (2n 5 32)
and C. persicifolia L. (2n 5 16, 18) has a support
value of 99%. The two morphologically divergent
species, C. arvatica and C. rotundifolia (2n 5 34),
are sister species with 77% bootstrap support.
Campanula carpatica Jacq. (subsect. Rotula Fed.)
does not appear to be as close to C. pyramidalis L.
(2n 5 34), but it does resemble C. herminii from
the Iberian Peninsula. Campanula pyramidalis is
part of the ‘‘isophylloid’’ group of species (e.g., C.
isophylla Moretti, C. garganica Tenore, C. versicolor
Andrews [not sampled], etc.), which is centered in
Italy and the western Balkan Peninsula and is
somewhat intermediate between the Phyteuma L./
Asyneuma alliance and those species that could be
considered as typically rapunculoid (e.g., Campanula carpatica, etc.) (see also Damboldt, 1965a).
However, many species in this group hybridize
freely, and numerous hybrids involving C. carpatica
are known in cultivation (Lewis & Lynch, 1989).
Thus, the ITS data suggest that this grouping is a
natural one. Broader sampling would perhaps have
helped clarify the positions of the ‘‘isophylloid’’ and
Heterophylla groups.
The Phyteuma clade includes morphologically
similar species and has strong bootstrap support
(91%). Petromarula Vent. ex Hedw. f. is sister to
all the other taxa, followed by Asyneuma japonicum
(Miq.) Briq. The clade comprising Physoplexis
(Endl.) Schur and Phyteuma has a bootstrap support of 81%, but relationships within this group are
unresolved. The long branches in this clade (Fig.
2) suggest these taxa are relatively divergent. The
sister group of Phyteuma and closely related genera
includes Eurasian genera such as Legousia Dur.
and several diverse North American taxa, such as
Triodanis Raf., Campanula divaricata Michx., and
Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small. This
clade is weakly supported with a bootstrap value of
less than 50%. Apart from Triodanis, which is
sometimes considered to be congeneric with Legousia (McVaugh, 1945, 1948), these taxa are all rather
divergent morphologically. In Asyneuma, Phyteuma, Petromarula, Physoplexis, the ‘‘isophylloid’’
species such as Campanula pyramidalis, and the
American taxa such as Campanulastrum and Triod-
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anis, the capsule opens apically or medially by a
more irregular pore. Morphologically, C. divaricata
resembles Adenophora somewhat, and the capsule
opens basally. In other respects, such as the open
stellate shape and upward orientation of the flower,
the majority of the other taxa in this clade are typically rapunculoid (e.g., C. rapunculus L., C. patula
L., etc.).
The wahlenbergioids probably branched off early
in the evolution of the porate alliance and constitute the only major group in the Southern Hemisphere. They have radiated most in southern Africa,
although distinctive taxa occur on islands of the
Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Several species of Wahlenbergia have ovaries that are almost
superior, while Nesocodon from Mauritius has flowers that recall some species of Codonopsis in the
colpate/colporate alliance. In contrast, the campanuloids are dominant over much of the Northern
Hemisphere. The relative isolation of monotypic or
small, distinctive genera within the two main campanuloid clades (e.g., the Rapunculus and Campanula s. str. clades) suggests that the group as a whole
evolved in the Mediterranean Basin and spread
rapidly over the Northern Hemisphere. The Rapunculus clade is considerably heterogeneous both cytologically and morphologically, although all taxa
within this clade are exappendiculate. Many of the
species were included in section Rapunculus
(Fourr.) Boiss. (Boissier, 1875). It is the most geographically widespread clade, most diverse in the
Mediterranean Basin, and the only one that has
spread into North America (apart from Campanula
chamissonis in the Aleutian Islands). The numerically small but diverse campanulaceous taxa of
North America probably contain many relicts from
pre-glacial times and represent several relatively
independent groups derived from the main rapunculoid radiation in Eurasia (Shetler, 1979). An early radiation of the Rapunculus group in the Northern Hemisphere would explain the distinctiveness
of subgroups (e.g., Phyteuma, Petromarula, and related genera) that are associated with the European
Alpine orogenic events and fluctuating Mediterranean sea levels during the Tertiary period (Eddie,
1984; Favarger, 1972; Greuter, 1979). It would also
explain the presence of endemic genera such as
Githopsis in California and the other rather heterogeneous taxa in North America, e.g., Heterocodon
and diverse Campanula annuals in California (see
Morin, 1980), China, and southern Asia (e.g., Homocodon D. Y. Hong and Peracarpa J. D. Hooker &
T. Thoms.). The ancestral group(s) that eventually
gave rise to Adenophora, Hanabusaya, and the
harebell group (subsect. Heterophylla) may be related to some of the North American taxa such as
C. divaricata and C. robinsiae Small (not sampled),
and may also have been ancestral to the predominantly appendiculate Campanula s. str. group, of
which the mesophytic, exappendiculate species
such as C. latifolia, C. trachelium, etc. (sect. Eucodon), may be the least morphologically modified
descendants.
CONCLUSIONS
Overall, there is a remarkable congruence between the ITS tree and traditional ideas on species
relationships within the Campanulaceae (Eddie,
1999). The insights of early workers such as De
Candolle and Boissier have proved to be remarkably clear, and their classification systems have, on
the whole, been logically consistent with our findings on phylogeny. This study also supports the serological studies of Gudkova and Borshchenko
(1991) and the cpDNA phylogenies of Cosner
(1993) and Cosner et al. (2004).
The ITS trees indicate that the colpate/colporate
alliance (the platycodonoids) is sister to the remainder of the Campanulaceae (Eddie, 1997, 1999;
Shulkina & Gaskin, 1999). This is in agreement
with phylogenies of the Campanulaceae based on
cpDNA structural rearrangements (Cosner et al.,
2004). In comparison with the porate taxa, the colpate/colporate taxa show considerably more molecular divergence, although the wahlenbergioid taxa
were under-sampled. As a group, the colpate/colporate alliance has not radiated into drier, more
temperate regions and its area of greatest diversity
remains the region between the eastern Himalayas
and southwest China. It is hypothesized that Ostrowskia (not sampled) represents a minor element
of this alliance, which has evolved in the dry, temperate, and highly seasonal environments of Central
Asia and thus displays features that parallel certain
porate taxa, particularly the mode of capsule dehiscence. Canarina is clearly part of this alliance
and was misplaced in the classifications of De Candolle (1830) and Schönland (1889–1894), although
its chromosome (2n 5 34) is anomalous within the
platycodonoid group. These results also suggest
that baccate fruits evolved several times in the colpate/colporate taxa (see Hong & Pan, 1998). Within
this alliance there are combinations of certain morphological features that also occur in the porate
taxa, e.g., valvate apical dehiscence, a nectary protected by expanded basal filaments (nectar dome),
and colored pollen, and these may afford some
clues about possible links between the two major
alliances of the family.
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Species of the Campanula s. str. clade are mostly
appendiculate, have basal dehiscence, and are cytologically more homogeneous, particularly those
species in Campanula and Symphyandra. Many of
them were included in Campanula sect. Medium
(DC.) Boiss. (Boissier, 1875). Much of the radiation
of this group is associated with the mountain-building processes of Eurasia, from the Atlas Mountains
in the west to the western Himalayas. Subcenters
of high diversity for the Campanula s. str. clade
include the Balkan Peninsula, Anatolia, and the
Caucasus Mountains. Campanula, as it is currently
constituted, is clearly polyphyletic. The more divergent taxa in this clade are found mainly in the
Mediterranean basin and are placed in small or
monotypic genera (e.g., Azorina, Diosphaera, Edraianthus, Feeria, and Michauxia). Since De Candolle’s monograph of 1830, Edraianthus has been
associated with the wahlenbergioid group, but it is
clearly campanuloid, although its exact relationships within the Campanula s. str. clade remain
unclear (see also Hilliard & Burtt, 1973).
Symphyandra A. DC. is now generally considered to be artificial (Greuter et al., 1984; Oganesian, 1995), and this analysis supports that conclusion. However, the four sections of the genus
recognized by Fedorov (1957) are all quite distinct,
and we suggest that the species formerly included
in this genus should be re-examined and not necessarily included in Campanula without substantial
evidence. The generic status of Symphyandra odontosepala (Boiss.) E. Esfandiari (not sampled) and
the Iranian endemic genus Zeugandra P. H. Davis
(not sampled) also need to be reassessed. Symphyandra hofmanni Pant. seems to be rather distant
from the bulk of species in Campanula, whereas S.
pendula (M. Bieb.) DC. and S. armena (Stev.) A.
DC. are much closer.
Several genera may best be regarded as transitional between the wahlenbergioid group and the
campanuloid group. Musschia is probably better
placed with the campanuloids, but it is somewhat
intermediate morphologically between the two major porate groups and shows some resemblance to
wahlenbergioids such as Heterochaenia A. DC. from
Réunion. It does not appear to be close to Platycodon or Microcodon A. DC. as in the arrangement
of Schönland (1889–1894). On the basis of ITS sequence similarity to Gadellia, we suggest that the
distinct morphological evolution of Musschia on
Madeira was relatively rapid. Jasione also appears
to be basal within the complex of Northern Hemisphere genera but its exact relationships remain
unclear. On the whole it appears to have more affinities with campanuloid taxa. In the cpDNA tree
of Cosner et al. (2004), Jasione forms an unresolved
polytomy with Symphyandra, Edraianthus, Campanula, and Trachelium.
Chromosome numbers (Fig. 2) are lowest overall
in the colpate/colporate alliance, although the lowest recorded diploid number is for Jasione (2n 5
12). Within the Rapunculus clade, with the exception of the clade comprising Adenophora and Hanabusaya, the chromosome numbers are diverse and
are consistently lower than numbers recorded for
the Campanula s. str. clade, which are predominantly 2n 5 34. If we accept the premise that there
has been a general increase in chromosome number
during the evolution of the Campanulaceae, then
the platycodonoids are ancestral to all other groups
and the wahlenbergioids and rapunculoids are ancestral to the campanuloids s. str. This accords well
with our knowledge of pollen morphology and evolution in the family, as well as the morphology of
the capsule in the different groups. However, the
diploid number 2n 5 34 occurs in several unrelated lineages (Campanula, Nesocodon, Canarina,
and Ostrowskia) and probably evolved independently in each of these genera.
This analysis suggests that the ancestral home of
the Campanulaceae may be in the region of eastern
Asia (of current geography) (see also Hong, 1995;
Cosner et al., 2004), but such an interpretation cannot be easily reconciled with the distribution of
many genera within the family or with closely related families such as the Lobeliaceae, Cyphiaceae
s. str., or Nemacladaceae (Eddie, 1984, 1997,
1999). Carolin (1978), citing the distribution of Cyananthus in India, concluded that the Campanulaceae are essentially an African family that
evolved primarily in western Gondwanaland. Bremer and Gustafsson (1997), using nucleotide substitutions in rbcL, suggested an East Gondwanaland
origin at the end of the Cretaceous for the asteraceous alliance of families, and that the group subsequently diversified and expanded to West Godwanaland before the breakup of the supercontinent.
On the basis of atpB-rbcL spacer sequence data, E.
B. Knox (pers. comm.) has stated, ‘‘. . . The interpretation is that Cyphia and the Lobeliaceae originated in southern Africa because the eight ‘basal’
lineages are entirely or predominantly African, and
many of these are restricted to southern Africa.’’;
‘‘. . . The Lobeliaceae, Cyphiaceae, and Campanulaceae go back at most 40–50 MYA, and I do not
think that the biogeographic patterns can be attributed to Gondwanaland.’’ If the family had arisen
in Asia one would have expected platycodonoids to
be represented in Eurasia and in North America.
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Africa and Macaronesia suggests that the family
may have been more widespread in Africa and
around the Indian Ocean than now, but this additional hypothesis does not conflict with an Asian,
African, or a Gondwanaland origin for the family.
The major dichotomy in the family between the colpate/colporate and the porate taxa suggests that major tectonic processes in the early to mid Tertiary
period are implicated in its evolutionary history. A
fragmenting West Gondwanaland origin, with the
Asian platycodonoid taxa as relictual in land masses that now form the region of the eastern Himalayas and western China, seems a more likely scenario, and this would accord well with the
hypothesis (Eddie, 1997) that the more basal members of the wahlenbergioid group are essentially
southern or oceanic in their distribution (e.g., Nesocodon, Heterochaenia, Berenice L. R. Tulasne, and
the shrubby species of Wahlenbergia from New Zealand, St. Helena, and the Juan Fernandez Islands).
The endemic genera of the Cape Region of South
Africa probably represent a very early radiation of
the wahlenbergioid group in the fynbos vegetation
as the climate there cooled and became more arid
during the mid to late Tertiary (Eddie & Cupido,
2001).
The ITS phylogeny does not necessarily reflect a
species phylogeny (Doyle, 1992), but it does provide a basis for inferring possible relationships
within and between taxa at several taxonomic levels
and provides insights for future investigations. It
also provides a phylogenetic framework that can be
tested with other data sets. We must await more
extensive taxon sampling and data from other genes
(both nuclear and chloroplast), as well as intrageneric analyses and chloroplast genome rearrangement studies in order to refine these results. At the
same time it must be emphasized that refined data
sets of floral morphology and developmental studies
are also desirable before a new classification of the
Campanulaceae can be proposed.
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Eddie 96086 (UT)
Eddie 96087 (UT)
Eddie 4548404814 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Gaskin: 463 (UT)
Eddie 94003 (UT)
Eddie 251.700 (UT)
Gaskin: 115 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Haberle (UT)
Eddie 96055 (UT)
Eddie 95016 (UT)
Eddie 98016 (UT)
Gaskin 2084 (MO, UT)
Eddie 94002 (UT)
Neves 227 (UT)
Gaskin 205 (UT)
RBGE 19875003
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
RBGE 19900973 (Japan)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Ge et al. (1997)
Kim et al. (1999)
Eddie 4548404814 (EGHB)
RBGK 16225
T. Shulkina s.n. (Caucasus, Georgia, MO)
NCC 94003 (EGHB)
J. Archibald 251.700 (Italy, TEX)
Gaskin s.n. (Caucasus, Georgia, TBI)
Lammers 8858 (USA, Illinois, F)
R. C. Haberle 150 (USA, Virginia, TEX)
S. Collenette 8782 (Saudi Arabia, TEX)
Eddie 95.016 (Turkey, TEX)
Eddie 98016 (EGHB)
M. Merello 2084 (Caucasus, Georgia, MO)
NCC 94002, Eddie 94002 (EGHB)
S. Neves 227 (Portugal, TEX)
M. Merello 2194 (Caucasus, Georgia, MO)
Genbank accession number
(ITS1, ITS2)
AY322005,
AF090710,
AF090716,
AF090706,
AF090718,
AF090714,
AF090700,
AF090704,
AY322006,
AF090708,
AF090712,
AF090702,
AF183437,
AY322007,
AY322008,
AY322009,
AY322010,
AY322011,
AY322012,
AY322013,
AY322014,
AY322015,
AY322016,
AY322017,
AY322018,
AY322019,
AY322020,
AY322021,
AY331418
AF09071
AF09071
AF09070
AF09071
AF09071
AF09070
AF09070
AY331419
AF09070
AF09071
AF09070
AF18343
AY331420
AY331421
AY331422
AY331423
AY331424
AY331425
AY331426
AY331427
AY331428
AY331429
AY331430
AY331431
AY331432
AY331432
AY331434
Annals of the
Missouri Botanical Garden
Campanulaceae
Adenophora divaricata Franch. & Sav.
Adenophora divaricata Franch. & Sav.
Adenophora himalayana Feer
Adenophora lobophylla D. Y. Hong
Adenophora morrisonensis Hayata
Adenophora paniculata Nannf.
Adenophora petiolata Pax & Hoffm.
Adenophora potaninii Korsh.
Adenophora remotiflora (Sieb. & Zucc.) Miq.
Adenophora stenanthina (Ledeb.) Kitagawa
Adenophora stricta Miq.
Adenophora wawreana Zahlbr.
Asyneuma japonicum (Miq.) Briq.
Azorina vidalii (Wats.) Feer
Campanula alliariifolia Willd.
Campanula armazica Charadze
Campanula arvatica Lag.
Campanula barbata L.
Campanula bellidifolia Adams
Campanula carpatica Jacq.
Campanula divaricata Michx.
Campanula edulis Forssk.
Campanula erinus L.
Campanula glomerata L.
Campanula grossheimii Kharadze
Campanula hawkinsiana Hausskn. & Heldreich
Campanula herminii Hoffmans. & Link.
Campanula hohenackeri Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
DNA accession number
and (repository)
Voucher information, botanical garden
accession number, or reference
for published sequences (country
of origin when available)
572
Appendix 1. Taxa sequenced for the ITS region of nr DNA, listed alphabetically by genera and species within the Campanulaceae and Lobeliaceae. Institutional abbreviations
are: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBGK); Missouri Botanical Garden (MO); Tblisi (TBI); National Campanula Collection, Cambridge
(NCC); University of Texas, Austin (UT); Plant Resources Center, University of Texas, Austin (TEX); and University of Edinburgh (EGHB). Accession numbers follow the abbreviations
for Botanical Gardens. Material with voucher specimens is followed by collector, collection number, and herbarium acronym. Sources of material for published sequences can be
found in the cited publications.
Continued.
Taxon name and authority
Gaskin 466 (UT)
Eddie 96051 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Neves 226 (UT)
Eddie 96056 (UT)
Neves 230 (UT)
Gaskin 468 (UT)
Eddie 95007 (UT)
Eddie 95027 (UT)
Eddie s.n. (UT)
Neves 229 (UT)
Eddie 96092 (UT)
Eddie 96089 (UT)
Gaskin 57 (UT)
Eddie 00004 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Gaskin 458 (UT)
Gaskin 462 (UT)
Gaskin 314 (UT)
Gaskin 302 (UT)
Eddie s.n. (UT)
Gaskin 417 (MO,UT)
Eddie 96050 (UT)
Eddie 96048 (UT)
Eddie 95022 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Eddie 95023 (UT)
AY322022,
AY322023,
AY322024,
AY322025,
AY322026,
AY322027,
AY322028,
AY322029,
AY322030,
AY322031,
AY322032,
AY322033,
AY322034,
AY322035,
AY322036,
AY322037,
AY322038,
AY322039,
AY322040,
AY322041,
AY322042,
AY322043,
AY322044,
AF134862
AY322045,
AY322046,
AY322047,
AY322048,
AF134859
AF136237
AH008217
AF134860
AF134861
AY331435
AY331436
AY331437
AY331438
AY331439
AY331440
AY331441
AY331442
AY331443
AY331444
AY331445
AY331446
AY331447
AY331448
AY331449
AY331450
AY331451
AY331452
AY331453
AY331454
AY331455
AY331456
AY331457
AY331458
AY331459
AY331460
AY331461
573
T. Shulkina 18 (Caucasus, TBI)
NCC 96092, Eddie 96051 (EGHB)
Lammers, no voucher
S. Neves 226 (Portugal, TEX)
RBGE 19972042
S. Neves 230 (Spain, TEX)
T. Shulkina 58 (Caucasus, TBI)
Eddie 95007 (Turkey, TEX)
RBGE 1969372, Eddie 95027 (EGHB)
RBGE 19860223 (France)
S. Neves 229 (Portugal, TEX)
NCC 96092, Eddie 96092 (EGHB)
NCC, Eddie 96089 (EGHB)
T. Shulkina s.n. (Caucasus, Georgia, TBI)
Eddie 00004 (USA, Texas, TEX)
Lammers 8714 (USA, F)
T. Shulkina s.n. (Caucasus, Georgia, TBI)
T. Shulkina s.n. (Caucasus, TBI)
J. Gaskin 442 (Caucasus, Georgia, TBI)
J. Gaskin 158 (Caucasus, Georgia, TBI)
NCC, Eddie s.n. (EGHB)
J. Gaskin 417 (Caucasus, Georgia, MO)
NCC, Eddie 96050 (TEX)
Fu et al. (1999)
RBGE 19770035 (Spain, Canary Islands)
RBGE 19920352 (Nepal)
Lammers 8439 (Taiwan, F)
RBGE 19870950
Fu et al. (1999)
Fu et al. (1999)
Fu et al. (1999)
Fu et al. (1999)
Fu et al. (1999)
Genbank accession number
(ITS1, ITS2)
Eddie et al.
Phylogeny of Campanulaceae
Campanula kolenatiana C. A. Mey.
Campanula lanata Friv.
Campanula latifolia L.
Campanula lusitanica Loefl.
Campanula mirabilis Albov
Campanula mollis L.
Campanula ossetica Bieb.
Campanula peregrina L.
Campanula persicifolia L.
Campanula petraea L.
Campanula primulifolia L.
Campanula punctata Lam.
Campanula pyramidalis L.
Campanula raddeana Trautv.
Campanula reverchoni A. Gray
Campanula rotundifolia L.
Campanula samatica Ker-Gawl.
Campanula siegizmundii Fed.
Campanula sosnowskyi Charadze
Campanula steveni M. Bieb.
Campanula thyrsoides L.
Campanula tridentata Schreb.
Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small
Campanumoea javanica Blume
Canarina canariensis (L.) Vatke
Codonopsis dicentrifolia W. W. Sm.
Codonopsis kawakamii Hayata
Codonopsis lanceolata (Sieb & Zucc.) Benth. & Hook.f.
Codonopsis modesta Nannf.
Codonopsis nervosa Nannf.
Codonopsis pilosa Chipp
Codonopsis pilosula Nannf.
Codonopsis tangshen Oliv.
DNA accession number
and (repository)
Voucher information, botanical garden
accession number, or reference
for published sequences (country
of origin when available)
Volume 90, Number 4
2003
Appendix 1.
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Appendix 1.
Continued.
Taxon name and authority
Eddie 0448 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Eddie 95045 (UT)
Eddie 95029 (UT)
Eddie 940119 (UT)
Eddie 98004F (UT)
Eddie 95009 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Eddie 95018 (UT)
Haberle 149 (UT)
Eddie 95083 (UT)
Eddie 95035 (UT)
Eddie 49 (UT)
Eddie 98 (UT)
Eddie 13 (UT)
Eddie 97017 (UT)
Eddie 95034 (UT)
Eddie 95021 (UT)
Eddie s.n. (UT)
Eddie 95030 (UT)
Eddie 96066 (UT)
Eddie 95008 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Eddie 96090 (UT)
Eddie 96076 (UT)
Cosner s.n. (UT)
Eddie 760258 (UT)
Eddie 750893A (UT)
Gaskin 255(UT)
Eddie 98008T (UT)
Haberle 132 (UT)
Eddie 98004W (UT)
Hirst & Webster D. 448 (Lesotho, EGHB)
Cosner 179 (OS)
Eddie 95045 (EGHB)
RBGE 19860931
RBGE 19940119
S. L. Jury et al. 17429 (Morocco, TEX)
RBGE 19693714
Morin, no voucher
RBGE 19872386 (South Korea)
R. C Haberle 149 (USA, California, TEX)
Eddie 95003 (EGHB, TEX)
Eddie 95035 (EGHB)
Sales & Hedge 98.49 (Spain, RBGE)
Sales & Hedge 98.98 (Spain, RBGE)
Sales & Hedge 98.13 (Spain, RBGE)
Eddie 97017 (EGHB, TEX)
Eddie 95034 (EGHB, TEX)
RBGE 198921881 (Nepal)
RBGE s.n.
Eddie 95030 (EGHB, TEX)
Eddie 96066 (Greece, TEX)
RBGE 19771648
Lammers 9993 (F)
RBGE 19782029 (Spain)
Eddie 96076 (EGHB)
T. Ayers s. n. (BH)
RBGE 19760258
RBGE 19750893
T. Shulkina s.n. (Caucasus, TBI)
Eddie 98008T (EGHB)
R. C. Haberle 132 (USA, Texas, TEX)
Eddie 98004W (Scotland, TEX)
Genbank accession number
(ITS1, ITS2)
AY322049,
AY322050,
AY322051,
AY322052,
AY322053,
AY322054,
AY322055,
AY322056,
AY322057,
AY322058,
AY322059,
AY322060,
AY322061,
AY322062,
AY322063,
AY322064,
AY322065,
AY322066,
AY322068,
AY322067,
AY322069,
AY322070,
AY322071,
AY322072,
AY322073,
AY322074,
AY322075,
AY322076,
AY322077,
AY322078,
AY322079,
AY322080,
AY331462
AY331463
AY331464
AY331465
AY331466
AY331467
AY331468
AY331469
AY331470
AY331471
AY331472
AY331473
AY331474
AY331475
AY331476
AY331477
AY331478
AY331479
AY331480
AY331481
AY331482
AY331483
AY331484
AY331485
AY331486
AY331487
AY331488
AY331489
AY331490
AY331491
AY331492
AY331493
Annals of the
Missouri Botanical Garden
Craterocapsa congesta Hilliard & B. L. Burtt
Cyananthus lobatus Wall. ex Benth.
Diosphaera rumeliana (Hampe) Bornm.
Edraianthus graminifolius (L.) A. DC.
Edraianthus pumilio (Schultes) A. DC.
Feeria angustifolia (Schousb.) Buser
Gadellia lactiflora (M. Bieb.) Schulkina
Githopsis diffusa A. Gray
Hanabusaya asiatica Nakai
Heterocodon rariflorum Nutt.
Jasione crispa (Pourr.) Samp.
Jasione laevis Lam.
Jasione maritima (Duby) L. M. Dufour ex Merino
Jasione montana L.
Jasione sessiliflora Boiss. & Reut.
Legousia falcata (Ten.) Fritsch
Legousia speculum-veneris (L.) Fisch.
Leptocodon gracilis Lem.
Michauxia tchihatchewii Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
Musschia aurea Dumort.
Petromarula pinnata (L.) A. DC.
Physoplexis comosa (L.) Schur
Phyteuma orbiculare L.
Phyteuma spicata L.
Platycodon grandiflorus (Jacq.) A. DC.
Roella ciliata L.
Symphyandra armena (Stev.) A. DC.
Symphyandra hofmanni Pant.
Symphyandra pendula (Bieb.) A. DC
Trachelium caeruleum L.
Triodanis leptocarpa (Nutt.) Nieuwl.
Wahlenbergia hederacea L.
DNA accession number
and (repository)
Voucher information, botanical garden
accession number, or reference
for published sequences (country
of origin when available)
Volume 90, Number 4
2003
Appendix 1.
Continued.
Taxon name and authority
Schultheis (2001)
Schultheis (2001)
Schultheis (2001)
Dotti (1998)
Genbank accession number
(ITS1, ITS2)
AF176900
AF163435
AF163436
AF054938
Eddie et al.
Phylogeny of Campanulaceae
Lobeliaceae
Downingia bacigalupii Weiler
Lobelia aberdarica R. E. Fries & T. C. E. Fries
Lobelia tupa L.
Lobelia tenera Kunth
DNA accession number
and (repository)
Voucher information, botanical garden
accession number, or reference
for published sequences (country
of origin when available)
575